The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
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| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Lo! where old Walden's hallow'd wood.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Clifford, with honest, ready zeal.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “either for heat or payne putting off his gorget, sodaynly with an arrowe without an hedde he was striken into the throte, and incontinent rendered his spirite.” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “That Clifford's name is dire and fell.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “While this battail was in fightynge, a prieste called Sir Robert Asphall, chappelein and schole master to the yong Erle of Rutland, sonne to the Duke of Yorke, scarce of the age of 12 yeres, a faire gentleman and a maydenlike person, perceivyng that flight was more saveguard than tarrying, both for him and his master, secretly conveyed the Erle out of the felde by the Lord Clifford's band towarde the towne; but, or he could enter into a house, he was by the sayd Lord Clifford espied, followed and taken, and by reson of his apparell demaunded what he was—the yonge gentelman dismaied had not a word to speake, but kneeled on his knees imploring mercy and desiryng grace, both with holdyng up his hands and makyng dolorous countenance, for his speache was gone for feare. ‘Save hym,’ said his chappelein, ‘for he is a prince's sonne and peradventure may doo you good hereafter.’ With that the Lord Clifford markyd hym, and sayd, ‘By God's blode thy father slew myne, and so will I do thee, all thy kyn;’ and with that word stracke the Erle to the hart with his dagger, and bade the chappelein bere the Erle's mother and brother word what he had done and sayd. In this act the Lord Clifford was accompted a tyraunt and no gentelman; for the propertie of the lyon, which is a furious and an unreasonable beaste, is fo be cruell to them that withstande hym, and gentle to such as prostrate and humiliate them selfes before hym.” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “That kneeling captain bears young Beaufort's cognizance.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Did Montague forsake the fight?” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “When dark Yule-tide had clos'd the door.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Three times did valiant John de Vere” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “That crimeless king, round whose meek brow.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “In both states,” | quote | Stow, John. Annales; or, A General Chronicle of England from Brute until the Present Year of Christ 1580. 1580. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “he was patient and vertuous, that hee may be a patterne of most perfect vertue, as hee was a worthy example of fortune's inconstancy: he was plaine, upright, farre from fraud, wholly given to prayer, reading of scripture and almes-deedes; of such integrity of life that the Bishop whiche had beene his confessor tenne yeere, avoucheth, that hee had not all that time committed any mortall crime. So farre was he from covetousnesse, that when the executors of his uncle the Bishop of Winchester, surnamed the rich Cardinal, would have given to him two thousand pound, hee plainely refused it, willing them to discharge the Will of the departed. He was so religiously affected, that on principal holydaies he would were sacke-cloth next his skin. Oath he used none, but in most earnest matters these words, ‘Forsooth, and forsooth’ He was soe pitiful that when comming from St. Albon's, hee saw the quarter of a traytor against his crowne, over Cripplegate, he willed it to be taken away with these words. ‘I will not have any christian so cruelly handled for my sake!’ Many great offences he willingly pardoned, and receiving at a time a great blow by a wicked man which compassed his death, hee only said, ‘Forsooth and forsooth, yee doe fouly to smite a King anoynted so’—Of his owne naturall inclination, hee abhorred all the vices, as well of the body as of the soule.” | quote | Stow, John. Annales; or, A General Chronicle of England from Brute until the Present Year of Christ 1580. 1580. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Blore Heath!—may never harrow come.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “The Queen appointed Sir James Touchet Lord Audely (because his power lay in those parts) to raise an host of men, and to give battaile to the same Earle (Salisbury) if he saw cause and place convenient: she allied unto her all Knights and Esquires of Chestershire for to have their favour: she held open household among them and made her sonne the Prince to give a livery of swans to all the gentlemen of that country, and to many other through the land. Lord Audely had the leading of them into the field called Blore Heath near unto Mucklestone, by which the Duke of York and Earle of Salisbury must needs passe.—There both hosts met, and fought a mortal battell, wherein the Lord Audely was slain, with Hugh Venables of Kinderton, Thomas Dutton of Dutton, Richard Molyneux of Seston, William Troutbeck, and John Legh of Booth, John Donne of Tikington, and John Egerton of Egerton, Knights, &c.—But the greatest losse fell on them of Chestershire who had received the Prince's livery of Swans.” | quote | Stow, John. Annales; or, A General Chronicle of England from Brute until the Present Year of Christ 1580. 1580. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Then might the white rose chaplet wave.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Now the low beams with paper garlands hung, In memory of some village youth or maid, Draw the soft tear from thrill'd remembrance sprung; How oft my childhood mark'd that tribute paid!” | quote | Seward, Anna. The Poetical Works of Anna Seward. 1810. | |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Fair Alnwick is no longer ours, And lovely Prudhoe,” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “The silvan garb of Robin Hood” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “And he was cladde in cote and hode of greene, A shefe of pecocke arwes bright and kene Under his belt he bore ful thriftily, Well coude he dresse his takel yewmanly. His arwes drouped not with fetheres low, And in his hand he bare a mighty bowe, Of wood-craft could he wel all the usage, A not-hed hadde with broune visage, Upon his arme he had a gai bracer, And upon his side, a word and a bokeler, And on the other side a gai daggere Harneised wel and sharpe as pointe of spere, A Cristofre on his breast of silver shene, An horn he bare, the baudric was of grene, A forester was he sothely as I guesse,” | quote | Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. 1400. | Poetry |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Maid Marian's kirtle, scarfe and hood.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “The wintry land of Fiacim.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “We can mention one kingdom more admirable than the rest, viz. the kingdom of Fiacim, at the Northern Pole, where all the counsellors are magicians, and the names which they use in invocations are mathematically disposed in a wonderful harmony and efficacy to the performance of magical operations. —” | quote | Scot, Reginald. The Discovery of Witchcraft. 1584. | Theology |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “If Balkin and if Luridane.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Luridane is a familiar domestic spirit of the north, who is now become servant to Balkin, Lord and King of the Northern Mountains; he calls himself the Astral Genius of Pomona, an island among the Orcades, but he is not particularly resident there, for in the days of Soloman and David he was in Jerusalem or Salem, being then under the name of Belilah: after that he came over with Julius Cæsar, and remained some hundred years in Cambria, instructing their prophetical poets in British rhymes, being then surnamed Urthin-Wad Elgin: from thence he betook himself into this island, anno 1500, and continued there for fifty years, after which he resigned his dominion to Balkin, and hath continued ever since an attendant upon this prince. | quote | Scot, Reginald. The Discovery of Witchcraft. 1584. | Theology |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Each in a dead man's shrouded hand.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Hacks off the golden spur, &c.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “For that Sir Ralph Grey had sworne to be true to King Henry he was condemned and had judgment given upon him by the Earle of Worcester, High-Constable of Englande, as followeth: | quote | Stow, John. Annales; or, A General Chronicle of England from Brute until the Present Year of Christ 1580. 1580. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “he was disgraded of the high order of knighthode at Dancaster by cuttynge off his gylt spurres, renting his coat of armes, and breakyng his sword over his hed : and finally there his bodie was shorted by the length of his hed, and had no more harme.” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Long ages hence Plantagenet.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “All agree that the name of Plantagenet signifies a broom plant, and Buck tells us that Folk, the head of the family, about a century before the Conquest, was enjoined by the priest, as a punishment for his sins, to lash himself with that weapon, from which he acquired its name. | quote | Hutton, William. The Battle of Bosworth-Field. 1778. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Oh, Worster! it avail'd thee nought.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “It is memorable of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, Earl of Worster, that, having been bred a student in Baliol College, Oxon, and attained to an high degree of learning, he went to Jerusalem, and there made his abode for some time. Thence travelling into other countries, he came to Venice and Padua, as also to Rome out of a great affection he had to see the Vatican Library, where he made such an elegant oration to Pope Pius II. that it drew tears from the eyes of his Holiness. Likewise that he translated into English the Orations of Publius Cornelius and Caius Flaminius, and wrote divers learned tracts, whereof Bale maketh mention. | quote | Dugdale, William. The Baronage of England. 1675. | |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Oh, Exeter! what human breast.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Lie the brave Nevils ne'er to wake.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “He” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “comforted his men beyng wery, sharpley quicknyng and earnestly desiryng them with hardy stomackes to bere out this laste and finall brunt of the battaill, and that the feld was even at an ende: but when his souldiers beyng sore wounded, weried with so long a conflict, did geve little regarde to his wordes, hee beyng a man of a mynde invincible rushed into the middest of his enemies, where as he aventured so farre from his awne compaignie to kill and sley his adversaries, that he could not be rescued, was in the middes of his enemies striken downe and slaine. The Marques Montacute thynkyng to succor his brother whiche he sawe was in grete jeopardey, and yet in hope to obtein the victory, was likewise overthrowen and slaine.” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “On him whose long-lov'd voice besought him to return.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “The common people saied that the Kyng was not so jocund nor so joyous for the destruction of Therle, but he was more sorrowful and dolorous for the death of the Marques, whom both he knew, and it appered to other, to be inwardly his faithful friend: for whose sake only he caused bothe their bodies to bee with their auncestors solemnly entered at the Priory of Bissam.” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Strong is the arm of fate!—we fall to rise no more!” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “When Margaret harde all these miserable chaunces and misfortunes, so sodainly, one in another's necke to have taken their effect, she, like a woman all dismaied for feare, fell to the ground, her harte was perced with sorowe, her speache was in a manner passed, all her spirites were tormented with melencholy. The calamitie and misery of her time she detested and abhorred, her unstable and contrariant fortune she stedfastly blamed and accused,” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “Fair Tewksbury's hoary tow'rs at last.” | quote | Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “a goodly, femenine, and well feautered younge gentelman,” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Margaret of Anjou. 1816. | Biography | “‘how he durst so presumptuously enter into his realme with banner displayed.’ The Prince, beyng bold of stomacke and of a good courage, answered, sayinge: ‘To recover my father's kyngdome and enheritage, from his father and grandfather to him, and from him, after him to me lyneally divoluted.’ At which wordes Kyng Edward sayd nothing, but with his hand thrust him from him, or as some say, stroke him with his gauntlet, whom incontinent they that stode about, which were George, Duke of Clarence, Rychard, Duke of Gloster, the Marquess of Dorset, and the Lord Hastyngs, sodaynly murthered and piteously manquelled. The bitternesse of which murder some of the actors after in their latter days tasted.” | quote | Hall, Edward. Hall's Chronicle. 1809. | History |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Poems. 1811. | Poetry | “Ah who can tell how hard it is to climb,” | quote | Beattie, James. The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. 1771. | Poetry |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Poems. 1811. | Poetry | “Per l'avvenir vo', che ciascuna ch'aggia Il nome tuo, sia di sublime ingegno E sia bella, gentil, cortese e saggia, E di vera onestade arrivi al segno; Onde materia agli scrittori caggia Di celebrar il nome inclito e degno, Tal che Parnasso, Pindo, ed Elicone Sempre Isabella, Isabella! risuone.” | quote | Ariosto, Ludovico. “Orlando Furioso.” Orlando Furioso. 1516. | Poetry |
| Hodson, Margaret (Holford). Poems. 1811. | Poetry | “Strong sense, maternal, patriotic, and, above all, Christian feeling, without a tincture of fanaticism, are the characteristics of this poem, which will be ever the delight of those who are formed or trained to feel as man should feel.” | quote | Nares, Robert (editor). The British Critic. 1793 – 1843-10. | Theology |